Musings on Beauty: Part ?
Greetings again! What a gift that you are still here, even after the face-eating comment and that last, very dry entry. The latter was disappointing to me. I confess that sometimes when I am writing I can only hope that what I have written is coherent. But... somehow today this whole concept has woven into my schoolwork and various conversations with peers and a couple professors, and this has really become a rabbithole! I've been turning it around in my mind most of the day. I am so excited, and yet... with more mid-term projects and another sermon coming up there is no way I'm going to be able to tackle this like I did my Thanksgiving stuff. One day at a time... In case you're interested though, I have included my rough notes if you'd like to take a stab at putting the puzzle together. (I've also taken lots of pictures in my on-foot and bike-trail travels and I look forward to posting them with upcoming meditations!)
Who would have thought that a conversation about theophany in Daniel, the future of the church, and AI would all weave into one conversation about the nature of beauty?
Where do I even start? Angels... glass... value...
- Coloured glass, "treasure in earthen vessels"
- Angels and filters - Theophany? Necessary? Why?
- Revelatory, accessible shapes
- Changing spiritual landscapes; self-curated spirituality = freedom and chaos; opportunity and danger; partially result of failed positive institutional precedent and trustworthy authority
- Institutional church unequipped for resurgence
- Reaching for meaning; = necessity to define meaning
- = God's task of creating order out of chaos vs drowning in a soup of subjectivity and post-truth
- Hope = taking pieces of what was, looking at them, evaluating them, and building something better
- = defining a new orthodoxy
Meta-modernism- Trans-modernism? "Integrative Realism"?
- Worry = Negative; God leaves remnants
And where am I in this? I am... in it. Who am I in this? I am a fattening caterpillar. That is my job, for now.
